Orphan Train: A Novel (Paperback)

from AgneJakubauskaite

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Christina Baker Kline's novel "Orphan Train" juxtaposes two touching life stories of unlikely friends, a 17-year-old Penobscot Indian Molly and a rich 91-year-old widow Vivian. Although at first these two women seem to have little in common, their unenviable fates are not that d...

from rosalita

In the late 1920s, a young Irish girl is orphaned when the rest of her family dies in a New York City tenement fire. She is among thousands of such abandoned children who were rounded up and put onto "orphan trains" that took them to new homes in the Midwest and elsewhere. It all sounds so wholes...

from AConstantReader

This was a great story. I had never heard of the "Orphan Train" before so I found this book very interesting and learned a lot from it. The author did a good job of weaving two stories together - one from the past and one from the present. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a great s...

from cyncie

What a beautifully written story, about a young Irish immigrant who loses her family shortly after arriving in America and is placed on an orphan train, to endure all sorts of hardships and trials and ultimately success and redemption. Her life story is one of tremendous heartbreak and fortitude ...

from Briars_Reviews

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is a beautiful novel following the lives of two girls who have become orphans. Molly Ayer is almost eighteen and is living through the child welfare system. It's not easy and she hasn't had the best of lives, but she's doing alright. She finds herself in a b...